Word: philippice
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Pink-and-White's Grandfather was Lord Randolph Churchill, august, romantic and trenchant, one of the greatest fighting orators the House of Commons ever knew. He it was who introduced U. S. blood into the great house of Churchill by marrying Jenny Jerome of New York. Today the father...
Not all who prophesied a terrific philippic knew Roy A. Young. Famed masters of finance have won reputations for taciturnity, austerity. But Governor Young is friendly, cheerful, talkative. He was twitted", last week, about his nickname, coined by the able financial writer for the New York World John F. Sinclair...
Roy Young delivered no philippic, no bomb. If there had been any crisis at Philadelphia, no listener would have guessed it. Gov. Young told the bankers the A. B. C. of banking. He laid down some incontrovertible rules of ethics. Among them: "Responsibility of banks does not end with their...
Two days later Senator Reed's motion to reconsider was voted on, after he had delivered another philippic, and the vote was 43 to 24 against reconsideration.
On these facts Senator Caraway of Arkansas (Democrat) rose in the Senate and delivered a Philippic: